Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CIRO-FM

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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 03:00, 8 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

CIRO-FM

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Tourist information station which got missed in the recent round of deletion batches, because it wasn't actually filed in Category:Tourist information radio stations in Canada. As with the others, however, it's still a low-power station, broadcasting a format that WP:NMEDIA explicitly deprecates as non-notable, whose current operational status is unverifiable because this class of stations is now exempt from CRTC licensing -- thus leaving us with no way to determine whether it's still operating or not, or when it went defunct if it's not, or anything else about it beyond a boilerplate statement of existence. And if we can't verify it, we can't keep it. Bearcat (talk) 04:18, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 04:18, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 04:18, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete; there's no presumption of notability for tourist information stations, licensed or not, and it seems unlikely that CIRO-FM will ever attain the coverage in reliable sources to meet the general notability guideline, much less to verify whether it is still operating. (It's certainly not independently notable of Osoyoos — the station exists to promote tourism to that British Columbia town — and as with the other, already-deleted TIS articles, even if you could verify the continued operation of CIRO, there just isn't much out there for this article to be anything other than a permastub.) --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:05, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.